Conversations with a Machine by Ruth Irwin #books The two searching sequences that

The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living – friendships lost or neglected

and the long-lasting effects of early messages about relationships and self-worth

She is uniquely a 'prophetic' poet

as the fantasies of sex and violence allowed to play out in the subjugations that have long been the poet's concerns

Or perhaps not: there is nothing so certain or pat in Giles Goodland's poems of insect life

Conversations with a Machine by Ruth Irwin #books The two searching sequences thatHow can I know if you are now alive? I echo thought, but cannot feel the beat. Debates around artificial intelligence continue to rage, with large language models considered at best an irritant, or, increasingly, an existential enemy to the written word. Looking past the anger, these Conversations with a Machine put the tech to creative use: here human and machine genuinely collaborate in writing a Shakespearean sonnet sequence, exploring urgent